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  • Neil Young's "Journey Through the Past" (1974)

    From poisoned rose@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 15 19:46:06 2016
    XPost: rec.music.beatles, rec.music.dylan, rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglVMxLUrJ0

    Forgotten experimental documentary, directed by Young himself...somehow
    slipped my mind to look this up until recently. The stream is of
    mediocre quality, but I'm well-used to digging through lo-fi rarities.

    It's not too bad for this sort of woolly, DIY project...the rhythm of
    the editing feels right. Strangely, it promotes Buffalo Springfield and
    CSNY more directly than his own work. Maybe his groups were still more marketable than his own name back then.

    Some sights from the film: street-corner Christians, black riders, a
    mysterious religious figure, someone shooting up, Young's love for old
    cars, offstage musician banter and a brash, precocious kid. Contemporary footage of Young performing tends to be in an informal, woodshed mode
    rather than anything onstage.

    Someone groans that it's "insane" for certain rock concerts to be asking
    $7.50 or $8.50 for a ticket...oh, those were the days.

    Warning: At one early point, there is a silent patch for a couple of
    minutes while Buffalo Springfield performs "Rock & Roll Woman" on The
    Flip Wilson Show. I'm guessing that lawyers from Wilson's estate
    demanded this, since other Buffalo Springfield clips are intact. I found
    this isolated performance with sound elsewhere on YouTube, so I didn't
    mind. There also is some irregular silence within the final eight
    minutes that seems like a flaw in the stream. Though I note the credits
    mention the Beach Boys' "Let's Go Away for Awhile," and I didn't recall
    hearing that during the film.

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  • From I Love My NezMonkee@21:1/5 to Michael Black on Thu Jun 16 13:05:22 2016
    XPost: rec.music.beatles

    On 6/16/2016 9:41 AM, Michael Black wrote:
    On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, poisoned rose wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglVMxLUrJ0

    Forgotten experimental documentary, directed by Young himself...somehow
    slipped my mind to look this up until recently. The stream is of
    mediocre quality, but I'm well-used to digging through lo-fi rarities.

    I saw this once in the late seventies, I guess it was at the local rep
    house, unless it was when one of the universities here did one of their occasion selection of "rock movies". But I have no memory of the
    contents, it was something to see, I think especially since at the time
    you either had to see it right now, or likely not have a chance to see
    it again (the days before VCRs). I think my friend knew about it, I
    wasn't uninterested in Neil Young but wasn't paying attention to movies
    back then. But I did get to a lot of films like this at the time.

    The only real image I remember is Carrie Snodgrass, who he was married
    to or living with at the time. And I'm not even sure she's in it, her
    name pops into my mind when I see you mention this movie.

    Michael

    Thanks for the weird dreams I got last night after watching this pr!

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